Just a friendly reminder about our competition changes which will be implemented starting with our March competition.
Note: These changes are being trialled in response to feedback we have had from both members and judges.
Schedule for the night.
The below schedule will need to be strictly adhered to so as the fit everything into our time frame. Any announcements will need to be made during the break.
- 6:30 PM prints will be on the stands for judges to have time for a preliminary viewing.
- 7 pm our competition night will begin. There will usually be a few announcements before the print judging commences.
- 8 pm our print judging will be completed and we will have a 15 minute tea/coffee break with a chance to discuss any questions arising after the print judging.
- 8:15 pm our digital slideshow and announcement of our digital awards and comments will begin.
- 9 pm we will need to be finished and commence packing up. Unfortunately the club requires us to leave by 9:30 pm as they close then. It is a shame that we have these time restrictions as often we feel we need more time, but we have to follow the directive of the club.
Print Changes
The only changes to the print part of our competition is that we will not be putting the names of the images on the front of our image.
As previously explained this is to ensure that the images are always judged on their photographic merit rather than the judging being influenced by the name of the image which has occasionally happened.
Names will still be on the back of the images and there is no problem with letting our fellow members know the names of our images.
Digital Changes
- Our judge will make verbal comments and announce awards during the slide show on comp night.
- Our judges will no longer write comments on the website.
- We always hope most of our members will be able to attend on competition night but of course we understand that members who live far away, or members who are unwell or members who are travelling are not able to attend.
We suggest that our members who are not able to attend on the night can ask another member to make a note of comments made by the judge and pass these comments onto them.
As previously explained theses changes have been made in response to feedback from numerous members that they feel the judging of the digitals has been quite different from the judging of the prints even though it is the same judge.
Many members believe that judges are favouring the prints when making awards and not giving the digitals as much merit.
One reason for this may be that the judges might see our digital competition as separate from our print competition as is the case with some other clubs.
As we all know, in our club they are both just two different formats for the one competition.
As we are now asking the judges to deliver their comments verbally on comp night they will no longer be providing written comments.
Thank you everyone for your cooperation. Hopefully everything will go smoothly.
